Antique Rose Star Album Quilt Documented In W Pa Quilt Project Yqz

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From the Collection of Muriel McCarl of W Pennsylvania

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We found ourselves with a number of quilts and are going to be listing them over the next few days or longer, however long it takes.

This is an attractive quilt, a part of the estate collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl of W Pennsylvania. This quilt has the tag that identifies it as being part of the data base of the Western Pennsylvania Quilt Documentation Project, dated as being done between 1901 and 1929. It is comprised of 25 blocks, measuring approx. 14" by 14.5", each with a large floral motif done in red, yellow and green, both machine pieced and hand appliqued. (The quilt project shows that this is machine pieced, but it sure looks to me as if it is hand pieced.) The blocks have mitered corners, and they come together in a well matched star and are arranged without sashing in a 5 by 5 pattern, with five stripes of different fabrics to create a border which is mitered at the corners. The wonderful quilting is done by hand, stitch in the ditch and leaves, with a stitch count of 17 (counting above and below) per inch where I measured it. The back is made of panels of white cotton, pieced together. It measures approx. 85" by 85". The quilt has seen moderate use, and some of the fabric not held up as well as other fabrics used in this piece. The green fabric has bled dye that is mostly visible on the back. You can see in the photos that a section of the border is bleached and there are assorted small stains. There are still many nights of use left in this quilt.

This was a part of a collection amassed by Muriel and Foster McCarl of Beaver Falls, PA. They began to collect quilts in the 1950's. We found this obituary for her from last year:

Mrs. McCarl and her late husband, Foster McCarl Jr., collected hand-made quilts and coverlets for more than 50 years, amassing what their son called "a unique, world-class collection."

"In the early 1950s my parents developed a real passion for Americana," he said. "They connected the fabric of the quilts to the fabric of history and the lives of the people who made them.

Eventually, he said, they decided to transfer the collection to galleries that would display and preserve the pieces for others to appreciate.

They donated the quilts to the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Museum at Colonial Williamsburg, also endowing the McCarl Folk Art Galley there. But they wanted to keep part of the collection in Western Pennsylvania, which lead to the creation of the McCarl Coverlet Gallery at Fred Rogers Center of Saint Vincent College.

Mrs. McCarl was born Muriel Phillips in Beaver Falls, where her father was secretary-treasurer of Moltrup Steel. She graduated first from Beaver Falls High School, then from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where she studied classical piano.
She could have gone on to a career in New York, said her son, but she chose to marry Mr. McCarl, her high school sweetheart. They were together 63 years, until his death in 2007.

Mrs. McCarl worked as a music teacher, then joined her husband in his business, McCarl's Plumbing and Heating. As the business grew into a mechanical contracting firm, the family grew to include four sons, and Mrs. McCarl stayed home to raise them.
She also became a busy volunteer at Chippewa United Methodist Church, where she was choir director and music teacher for 30 years, as well as a donor of musical instruments.

"She believed people could connect to God spiritually through music," said her son.

Sadly, she is gone now, but you can enjoy a part of her beloved collection, and make this jewel your own! Good Luck!
Estimated shipping weight, (packaged) is 6 lbs 12 oz in a 20 x 16 x 8 box.
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